ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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Reviews of Tenet, The Lost Prince, Centigrade, Love You Forever and Get Duked!
Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, and John Luther Adams
GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
Tenet (12A)
Directed by Christopher Nolan
★★★
ALL eyes are on Christopher Nolan’s epic and mind-bending sci-fi thriller, the first big blockbuster film to be released during the pandemic, in the hope that it will persuade people to return to cinemas in their droves and save the industry.
Shot in IMAX and 70mm, the visuals are dazzling and beyond spectacular and certainly need to be seen on the biggest screen possible to be appreciated.
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